Felicity Sheehy won Second Place in Narrative’s 2019 30 Below Contest. A native of New York’s Hudson Valley, she is a PhD candidate in English literature at Cambridge University.

Losing the Farm

by Felicity Sheehy

First the chickens, gone in a fluster,
whiter than somebody else’s ash.

The fox couldn’t catch them all,
so one stayed behind, pecking at glass


late into the night. Then the cats—
People on couch
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